Sheepish

Posted on April 17, 2026April 17, 2026 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white, courtesy, Design, Life, Patterns, Photography, Sheep, Spirals, Stone1 Comment

Courtesy of my friend…

I like the swirls that make up the wool on the stone sculpture. It’s funny how patterns affect me. I get bored of plain, sleek lines, but I don’t like overly fussy patterns either. Greek Key patterns, yes, and Paisley patterns, and spirals. But if the shapes are disjointed, like things are either too big or small, then I’m not as keen on it.

I also like the black and white filter on the picture, it makes the picture bolder. The bright sunlight bleaching out some of the detail adds to the effect.

Spirals

Posted on April 8, 2026April 8, 2026 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Curves, Experiment, Fine Art, Fun, Happy, Life, Painting, SpiralsLeave a comment

Making fire with spirals, snaking up onto the sky. Green and orange for definition. Locking up in circles and curves of acrylic on canvas, part of a work in progress.

I decided to create abstraction that could be flames or fronds. Happy to play with paint.

Previous spirals

Posted on April 9, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, art nouveau, Celtic art, Design, Digital drawing, Life, Memory, Pattern, SpiralsLeave a comment

Just found an old digital drawing I turned into a pattern.

I can’t remember when I did this but it’s certainly a few years ago. I do love spirals….

Fireworks, galaxies, water spinning in a plughole, staircases, tornadoes, cloud formations, patterns in art. Its a, recurring theme in my art and I also love celtic patterns and art nouveau designs….

Spirograph

Posted on October 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memories, Patterns, Sketching, Spirals, Spirograph3 Comments

Does anyone remember this. It came with pins to hold the circles down that you drew around. You had to use thick card board to pin into otherwise as you used the small circles the paper would slip. Over the years I did hundreds of these patterns, I could almost draw them without the plastic circles and getting pens to fit in the little holes. I liked some patterns more than others. Maybe it explains my obsession with them now?

Meditation

Posted on September 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Contrast, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Meditation, Metallic, Non metallic, Pattern, Sketching, SpiralsLeave a comment

Taking my mind off things. I drew a series of spirals then filled them in with different colours usin metallic and non metallic felt pens. Using the colours in sector’s around the spirals in contrasting colours. It took me an hour, and gave me some relief to how I’m feeling.

Spirals clouds or scales?

Posted on May 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, Clouds, Drawing, Layout app, Life, Scales, Sketching, Spirals2 Comments

Your choice. Multiplied image initially drawn in black ink pen, then I added black grey and pale brown shading to give the effect of layers of paper. Finally I twisted each section in my layout app to create a symmetrical pattern. Having done work on my MA based on dragons and Asian art can’t help feeling that a dragon may emerge. I would have to add a layer on to create this. Something to experiment with.

Bats?

Posted on October 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 3d, Animals, Art, Bats, Design, Fun, Life, Pareidolia, Spirals, Squares, trianglesLeave a comment

Another pattern that I can see creatures in. This time bats I think. Drawn with spirals, squares and triangles, tried to make them a little, 3d. I thought leaving some white space around the shapes gave it a bit more of an interesting look.

When I say digital, I mean finger painting.

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Drawing, Finger painting, Fun, Horse, Metallic sheen, Sketch, SpiralsLeave a comment

I did a drawing in ArtRage oils today, it’s a drawing app with pens and a metallic/non metallic slider so you can add a sheen of apparent oil paint if you want. In this case I drew with my finger although I do have a stylus to draw with if I want. I have this free version and I also have the paid for app with more pens and brushes. I like the freedom it allows me.

Cat painting

Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Cat painting, Female artist, Fun, Life, Painting, Pattern, Spirals2 Comments

Sometimes I go a little abstract, and then I particularly like adding flowing lines and spirals. I guess I’m a pattern lover. This cat painting is acrylic on canvas. I did it in 2008. I do remember painting it but I don’t know if it was ever exhibited, I think perhaps I should have an archive but I never got round to it. I think I can see a hint of of illustration ideas in this. But then Ive always been disorganised. I am thinking of setting up a new webpage which will only be for illustrations so that I can add images that might be for sale, or look into doing tee shirt designs. I’ve heard of places like Redbubble , Spoonflower or Square, is anyone familiar with them?

Phoenix doodle

Posted on October 24, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Birds, Black ink, Colours, Curves, Doodles, Drawing, Face, Fun, Patterns, Sketching, Spirals3 Comments

I drew some curves and spirals then started adding doodles, including a couple of birds and a face. I started using a fine line black ink pen, but it was running out so I turned instead to a black calligraphy pen. When I’d finished I decided to add colour. That helped accentuate some of the shapes. I could do more but decided to leave it. I called it phoenix because a bird seemed to ge appearing from the background.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Spirals